Andrew Lipson's LEGO® Page

Voted Cool LEGO Site of the WeekNov 5th - 11th 2000

Because The LEGO Company get paranoid about this sort of thing I suppose I'd better make it clear that I have no formal affiliation with them, that my views are my own and do not
necessarily represent theirs, and so on. So if you think any of this is official you are as deluded as they are.

My Creations

Here are a few of my creations for your delectation and delight. You will probably want LDRAW or MLCAD or a compatible program if you want to follow my directions actually to build
any of these...

A nice design for a one-way gear mechanism built out of LEGO Technic. Turn the input axle clockwise and the output axle turns clockwise. Turn the input axle
anti-clockwise and the output axle still turns clockwise... Encase it in a box of black LEGO bricks to hide the mechanism and confuse your friends...

A Hoberman Sphere (well OK, I guess it's a Hoberman Octahedron really, but only because I was running out of pieces). I just wondered whether it was possible to
build one out of LEGO. Silly me - of course it is. And I finally found a use for all those bent technic beams... Is this cool, or what?

Least but not last is my ' bendy axle ', which is a sort of substitute for the LEGO universal axle joint. This takes up more room, but can turn through sharper angles. It
can probably handle more torque too, though I haven't tested this.

New!Escher's 'Relativity'. My fourth joint project with Daniel Shiu. No software or camera tricks, but some very fiddly construction

New!Escher's 'Waterfall'. Yet another project with Daniel Shiu. Some fairly serious cheating went on here, but there are several points of interest in the LEGO
construction itself too.

Useful Links

General

I can't imagine many people visiting this page won't already know about LUGNET , but just in case...LUGNET is The One Site for Things Of LEGO Interest on the web. Much, much better than The LEGO Company's site unless you are a small child (though youmay want to go there as well - if you have a fast enough modem).